Mapping NIS+ Objects Other Than Table Entries

You can store NIS+ objects other than table entries in LDAP. However,
doing so has no particular value unless you also have NIS+ replicas that obtain
those NIS+ objects from LDAP. The recommended choices are the following.

There are no replicas, or the replicas obtain their
data from the NIS+ master only.

Edit the mapping configuration
file (see NIS+LDAPmapping(4)) to remove the following attribute values for all
non-table-entry objects.

nisplusLDAPdatabaseIdMapping
nisplusLDAPentryTtl
nisplusLDAPobjectDN

For example, if you started out from the /var/nis/NIS+LDAPmapping.template file, the sections you need to remove (or disable by commenting)
are as follows.

Create the nisplusObject attribute and nisplusObjectContainer object class as shown in the following example (LDIF data is suitable
for ldapadd(1).
Attribute and object class OIDs are for illustration only.)